Communications Forum - Adapting Journalism to the Web

Adapting Journalism to the Web

Thursday, April 5, 2012
5-7 PM
633-E14, Media Lab

Abstract

New communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. The avalanche of news, gossip, and citizen reporting available on the web is immensely valuable but also often deeply unreliable. How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?

Speakers

Jay Rosen is director of NYU's Studio 20, a master's level journalism program which uses projects to teach innovation in journalism. He is the author of the blog PressThink, and of the book What are Journalists For?

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the Media Lab. He blogs at ethanzuckerman.com/blog.

A Knight Science Journalism event.

Co-sponsors: Center for Civic Media, Comparative Media Studies, Science, Technology, and Society,Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies

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